THE YOUNG NATUBALIST. 



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are occasionally obtained in all parts of the 

 country. Two have been obtained of recent 

 years in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield. 



Abroad it is found in various parts of 

 Europe, more or less commonly in all wooded 

 districts. In Holland it is rare, but in some 

 parts of Sweden it is common, It also occurs 

 in various parts of Asia, and in Africa. 



Nest. — A few instances of the nesting of 

 this species in Britain are on record. A pair 

 is mentioned by Gilbert White as having 

 built in a tall beech in a wood in the parish 

 of Selborne, and others are mentioned by 

 Hewitson. Young birds, which must have 

 been reared in this country, have been killed 

 in Cumberland, Northumberland, and other 

 places. In Wermland, in Sweden, where it 

 breeds commonly, the "old Bushman" states 

 that it goes to nest the latest of the whole 

 tribe; he never found one before June, and 

 some have been taken as late as the middle 

 of August. It does not build in the deep 

 forests, but selects some one of the smaller 

 plantations, where fir and beech are mixed 

 together, always, however, selecting a fir 

 wherein to place the nest. He noted a 

 peculiarity in the nest of this species which 

 he did not observe in that of any other bird, 

 viz., that there was always some green birch 

 branches with the leaves on interwoven with 

 the dry sticks which composed the bulk of 

 the nest. The inside is lined with some soft 

 substance, such as wool or dry leaves. 



Egg's. — The number of eggs varies from 

 one to three. The nest mentioned by Gilbert 

 White had only one egg, and that hard sat. 

 The egg of this species is perhaps the most 

 beautiful of all the family. The ground 

 color is creamy, spotted and blotched with 

 different shades of sienna and madder brown. 

 Sometimes the blotches are arranged at each 

 end, and in a zone round the thick part. In 

 general appearance the egg of this species 

 comes nearest to that of the Peregrine, but 

 the color is deeper and brighter, and the egg 

 rounder. 



Varieties sometimes occur with all the 



ground color obscured by the spots and 

 blotches, they then being of a dark brown, 

 with lighter shades of blood red and sienna. 



ADDITIONS TO THE 

 ENTOMOLOGY OF HASTINGS. 



By YV. Bennett and S. Hume! 



The enclosed is a list of the species of 

 insects new to the Hastings district, which we 

 have taken during the two past seasons — 

 1879-S0. We hope you will be able to insert 

 it in the Young Naturalist as an instance that 

 " work wins " I ought to mention that the 

 Natural History of Hastings and its neigh- 

 bourhood had not been by any means neg- 

 lected, and the Lepidoptera had been especial ly 

 well worked. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Abraxas ulinata 

 Eupithecia albipunctata 

 Lobophora vinetata 

 Nonagria fulva 

 Cosmia affinis 

 Xylina semibrunnea 

 Hypenides costaestrigalis 

 Rhodophaea marmorella 

 Peronea comoarana 

 cristana 

 ,, aspersana 

 Spilonota suffusana 

 Sericosis lacunana v. lierbana 

 Epbippiphora signatana 0 



populana 

 Grapholitha nksana v. ciuerana 

 Olindia ulmana 

 Semasia rundana 

 Dicrorampha nlpinana 



plnmbana ? 

 Catoptria citrana 

 Eupa^cilia atrica pi tana 

 Argyrolepia enicana 

 Phygas Birdella 

 Hypolepia vi fella 

 Depressaria rotundella 



Dou^lasiella 



